Safety Kaizen Blitz Events

This schedule overview is a rough draft. To provide a clearer understanding of the facilitation steps and the reasoning behind them, I will review the process map and provide more detail as if this were a lean safety kaizen blitz event. 

Facilitate a defined number of safety kaizen blitz events annually. 

Numbef of job safety analyses OSAs) completed Job safety analysis exercises are minikaizen events. By targeting a number of them in a period, e.g., 20 JSA events in 2010, a company will guarantee employee engagement and improvement of the safety program. A side benefit of JSAs and safety kaizen blitz events is that the team members identify numerous safety improvements through their efforts. In our facility, those same people would submit the safety improvements for approval, based on the program described in the last section, and receive their rewards. 

Hold safety focused kaizen blitz events. 

Safety-focused kaizen blitz events with wrap-up meetings to celebrate safety gains... 

As I stated earlier, the kaizen blitz Is the most powerful people engagement, cultural Impact tool In a lean thinker s tool kit. I hope this kaizen overview that resulted In safety Improvements, cycle time gains, and people growth helped you better understand the power of this tool to drive change. Now, let s look at the application of all of the theory, philosophy, and benefits of the kaizen blitz In an actual kaizen event held In a small manufacturing plant. 

Kaizen blitz The kaizen blitz, or a rapid continuous improvement event, is the most powerful people-development and engagement tool in a lean thinker s toolbox. Use it to focus on safety improvement rather than cycle time gains. 

I had one year in which to develop my plans for the Cafe, so I would be ready to bring it to fruition at the 2008 AME Toronto conference. During that same year, I became involved in using kaizen blitz (multi-day, team-based rapid-improvement) events, which focused on safety improvement, in both... 

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